Wii U

Brick related

Punderino's packaging of SystemConfigTool is safe to install on rednand (of course), and sysnand only if you have CBHC. Uninstall it before removing CBHC, and be careful as it's easy to accidentally format your console if you don't think before clicking! And to be honest, as cool as it is, all its features (on a retail console) can be done manually or with other tools... If you install it on USB you will need said drive to boot.

3DS

ARM9LoaderHax speedrun

I did take a small risk, as OTPless installation carries an approximately 3% chance of failure, but this actually was a non-issue as I already had a NAND backup from the first time I hacked it, over a year and half ago!

I also didn't do my best (hesitated a little on the home menu), yet nobody to the best of my knowledge tried to beat me yet :)

For more information, including the rules I set for speedrunning this "game", please see the video description.

Custom Firmware

Wolfvak's CakesFW for 11.1 kernel with extra patches included: Cakes CFW for 11.1 kernel -- or the last official Cakes with 11.6 support?

Before I switched to Cakes, I mantained my fork of Luma called Puma33DS

Romhacking tools, etc

I wrote half-assed tutorials on using the above for game CXIs and system CFAs. Of course the beauty of these tools is that, by thinking and having the structure of a 3DS title in mind, any combination can be handled!

GBATemp predictions that actually turned out to be true

"and I wish [Nintendo] would have emailed me a link to the rom hosted on the nitendo servers since I hear you can download at like 10,000kb/s from them!" -- Law, 2010-3-23

While theorized since the Wii, in March 2016 titlekey exchanges and CDN commercial game downloaders became popular and set a new quality standard for game dumps

"I would class custom firmware on the 3DS as an actual reflashed physical NAND, which boots directly into your modified system menu, without booting first, and then requiring button presses to launch the hack." -- Jao Chu, 2014-11-30

Between 13 and 16 months later depending on your technical skill, A9LH happened (and set a new quality standard for CFW booting), not to mention the future sighax.

Just a couple months later RxPasta, a unauthorized fork with sigpatches, happened. Then RxTools 2.5 with sigpatches. Needless to say, it set a new standard for CFWs.

"I am hoping that one day that I can finally sign up to the Nintendo Developer Portal and get the latest SDK and Unity for N3DS for personal use" -- Voxel Studios, 2016-4-6

Of course, Nintendo had to open developer registrations to everyone (conspiracist would say to compete with freely distributable homebrew). And it set a new standard for dev tool warezers, not having to rely on Ryanrocks or Chinese uploaders anymore!

DS and DSi

Shop closure and what it means for hacking

2017-3-1: Ticket generation disabled, all new purchases will be impossible. But until that you can still get Opera and Flipnote, which are enough to get the nand key for hardmodding (itself enough for fixing the iEvolution)

2017-12-31?: Shop completely closed, no more redownloads.

3 partially overlapping ways to run DSi HB

CycloDS iEvolution: DS and DSi homebrews and (physical game) roms, but it was discontinued very early and its compatibility is low compared to more reputable DS-mode flashcards (R4ids.cn Gold, Acekard 2i, DStwo). It and the Acekard don't work on a fully updated system either. Hardmod time, and on a DSi you will understand why it's called hardmod.

Biggest Loser: Requires the old model wifi card (DWM-015), a very cheap but unpopular shovelware, a save programmer, and a PC on the same network handy every time you want to use it...

DSiWare exploits: Not possible on a fully updated system (hardmod, again) and/or if you didn't buy them while you could!

Cons: Discontinued, rare and expensive for its below average (for 2012 and on) compatibility that won't improve

Piracy is the only option‽

(Coming Soon)

Super Mario 64 DS blockless challenge

World 1-5: Should be possible

World 1 100 coins: Slightly tedious but confirmed possible

World 2: All 8 possible

World 3-6: Impossible, requires vanish cap

World 3-7: Impossible, requires metal cap

World 4: all 8 possible

World Mario: Only switch star possible

World 5: Walljump to get to Luigi's world

World Luigi: No stars possible? will have to double check

World 5-5: Use Luigi's backflip to get to Big Boo, then backflip and floating jump to get on the roof. Not very easy!

World 5-6: Impossible, requires vanish cap to reach the room

World 6-3: Impossible, requires metal cap

World 6-4: Use Luigi's backflip while in a "hole" inside the poison

World 6-5: Use Luigi's backflip from a poison-less area with a single Monty mole

World 7: All 8 possible

World 8-4: You can carefully climb the pillars with a shell (no need to actually get the coins on top of them)... or enter the pyramid normally, stand on the tile in the sand just left of the quicksand directly under the entrance to the tomb, and use Luigi's backflip!

World 9-3: Not possible before beating Bowser 2 and getting the poles, unlike with caps :)

World 9-4: Impossible, requires metal cap

World 9-6: Impossible, requires vanish cap

World 9-7: Impossible, must be selected to be obtained

NX/Switch

Who the fuck cares about an expensive console with paid online, that will launch with games initially designed (or even actually released) for the WiiU, but won't be backwards compatible, and for a decent length of time not cheap or hackable?